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When someone tells you to genuinely agape style love something it teaches you self-control. You must control selfish impulses, must educate yourself, must work in rational independence.
Say for example someone is told to love mindless communism – the sixteen hour day industrial complex. If you truly love it you do your best to discover and fix those things in inside the system that are destructive to it. This by definition requires thought and reasoning. If the system’s own system (if you’ll pardon the word play) is destructive to it, you will take steps to fix it from the inside and now your mindless communism has Italy on its forehead and Reagan is coming to visit. Whether communism is good or evil is beside the point. You have saved it through love.
When someone tells you to hate something they want to control you. Hate systems prey on personal feelings of vulnerability. You agree because you don’t want to seem stupid at the party, or you want someone to blame to avoid the overwhelming truth tsunami that you’ve made you’re own bed and now night has come, or the selfish desire to avoid consequences.
When someone asks someone else to be antagonistic they don’t want them to think, they want to bog them down in a maze of contradiction and blame-gaming. Their purpose is to be as angry as possible around as many people as possible. Hate groups work on the principle of levels of weaponization for those who don’t want to think to hard about how they got in their mess and threats of violence to everyone else, especially when those in charge don’t have to actually do any of the dirty work. For example, if one is a cowardly painter who wasn’t accepted into art school and joined a foreign army to try and avoid actual fighting, they don’t have to actually kill anyone. They can just blame the economy on Jews instead of poor economic and socio-political decisions made by the previous regime and lead a pleasant life of serial pedophilia and abuse of women until they kill themselves.
So if someone tells you to be antagonistic or contentious, consider why.
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Real talk; how does one properly write for a 1930s setting in which the world war did not take place?
Actually, more accurate; how does one RESEARCH for such a setting
I can give you some suggestions later.
First consider the changes that came because of the War. Dadaism, Surrealism, and Cubism were all a response to the absurdity of War. The War put the noir into the PI and the whiskey into the hands of the Hemingways wrought with the horror of War (I hope it’s apparent the capitalization is purposeful) and the desperate grasp at childhood into Salinger’s isolated grip. This effected how men thought about themselves and about masculinity. When you run into the ‘male author’ rambling on in almost racist exposition while their almost alcoholic main character and his almost treating women like people it is in response to these post-War authors and their attempts to write their way through shell shock.
But the War was the war to end all wars which boosted hope in the eternal reign of the dove and party like hope in humanity was something one could take to the bank. This meant everyone was more willing to use credit. Not only the North American flappers, but European governments desperate to rebuild took out huge loans from America launching those great United States into the new rich, which made America spend even more. This dropped America into the Great Depression in the thirties. The deep debt also weakened the hold of many European cultures on their colonies and thinned out their mobility, essentially weakening the old aristocracy.
There’s also the fact that many historians consider World War II an extension of World War I due to the intense penalties enforced on Germany. Especially since many Germans were lied to about how the war was going and many thought that German authorities had folded because they were cowards and not because the war was going so poorly for them. It provided an opportunity for men like Eduard Wirths and Aribert Heim to be able to do their experiments, and men like Hitler to gain political power, and men like them to stretch out the breadth of their cruelties. It also means no atom bomb, no nuclear race, no plastic as a result of the scientific inquiries during WWII.
Hopefully this presents a few helpful things to consider:
What would the world look like without modern art? What would cause modern art to develop in the War’s place?
The Roaring Twenties was partially due to post-War optimism. What else could cause optimism?
Many countries had a glut of war stories, adventure tales, and noir tales; what might their place, or why else would those stories be told?
What would the effect be on Europe not to have a weakening of the aristocracy and the continuation of the Germanic monarchy?
What would happen to the Hitlers, Wirths, and Heims without something like the Nazi party to hide behind.
Hopefully this helps! Consider looking at a timeline of artistic, architectural, musical, and political movements and consider why those movements happened at those times.
Real talk; how does one properly write for a 1930s setting in which the world war did not take place?
Actually, more accurate; how does one RESEARCH for such a setting
I can give you some suggestions later.
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